Jerusalem - The Israeli Foreign Minister, Mr David Levy, said yesterday he was considering whether to resign over the course of troubled peace talks and condemned what he called the "damaging" decision to try to murder a Hamas leader in Amman. Asked on Israel Radio how close he had come in recent days to resigning, Mr Levy said: "Almost 50-50, OK?" He added that he was "still weighing things and considering the balance".
Mr Levy said he was not consulted on the decision to send secret agents to Amman last month to try to kill Khaled Maashal, a political leader of the Islamic militant group Hamas. The bungled attempt sparked a crisis in relations with Jordan. "If I would have been consulted, I would not have let it happen," Mr Levy said from his home in northern Israel after a brief stay in hospital for chest pains he suffered late on Tuesday.